Our Prices

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with our pricing

Our Pricing

We ensure you get the very highest levels of expertise for a reasonable price.

Subject Matter Experts

All our staff are at the pinnacle of their field having dedicated their careers to Microsoft SQL Server; it's implementation, usage, analysis, and internals of the product. All have trained at the highest level, including with those who both ran the SQL Server team and wrote large portions of the software at Microsoft, obtaining their highest possible certifications.

We provide the very best service and results for our customers time and time again.

Value For Money

With this in mind we value our services and time highly but understand that filling any gap in resource must be a financially prudent option. Therefore we believe we are cheaper than any contractor worth his salt and, with our flexible working, even provide savings against having full time employees.

We are also confident that our skillset leads to a productivity rate above that of most SQL Professionals, widening the cost benefit gap even further in our favour.

Our Rates

Health Check

£ 195

Single Instance
£50 Additional Instance
Full Documentation
Actionable Results

Support

£ 650 /Day

<= 14 Hours Per Month
Rolling Contract
All Tasks Undertaken
Dedicated Contact

Support +

£ 600 /Day

15 to 28 Hours Per Month
Rolling Contract
All Tasks Undertaken
Dedicated Contact

Ultimate

£ 575 /Day

> 28 Hours Per Month
Rolling Contract
All Tasks Undertaken
Dedicated Contact

Flexibility & Peace of Mind

Flexible Units of Time

Despite a database itself being rigid by nature and its processes and actions usually well documented and set in stone, a DBAs job is rarely so stringent. With database restores being infrequent and sporadic, performance problems cropping up at unexpected times and not to a schedule, we offer the purchase of X hours per week or month, to be used as fits the business or the problems you are encountering, rather than insisting we work only at specific times.

Customer Focused

No two businesses are the same when it comes to their maintenance, tuning, or monitoring needs. Therefore we are happy to work to our clients' needs, whether that be committing to our Service for 2-3 days per week or just 1 day each month simply to ensure your servers are still ticking over, we are happy to support any and all requirements our clients can muster.

Long Term Peace of Mind

We like to joke that, as with our pets, a SQL Server is for life and not just for Christmas. Due to this our most common contracts are not short term, but rolling in order to ensure peace of mind that your servers are being looked after and that we are here in case of emergency, freeing you up to relax and concentrate on other areas of your company. Again, this could be 4, 8, or 12 hours a month up to 2 days a week, albeit on a rolling contract.

How We Compare

Our service provides you with expertise beyond reproach, covering not only the role of a SQL Server Database Administrator but that of a SQL Server Developer as well. It is also worth noting that our comparisons below are for an average employee and therefore the salaries would be considerably higher for experienced staff.

Average Annual Salary

Job Title	Paid Salary	Employers NI	Employers Pension	Total Cost
SQL Server DBA	£ 57500.00	£ 6612.50	£ 1322.50	£ 65435.00
SQL Server Developer	£ 52500.00	£ 6037.50	£ 1207.50	£ 59745.00

Comparative Total Salary - £ 125180.00

Scenarios

Scenario	Description	Daily Rate	Annual Cost	Savings vs DBA	Savings vs Dev	Prospective Savings
Scenario A	Company X requires 7 hours per month	£ 650.00	£ 7800.00	£ 57635.00	£ 51945.00	£ 117380.00
Scenario B	Company X requires 14 hours per month	£ 650.00	£ 15600.00	£ 49835.00	£ 44145.00	£ 109580.00
Scenario C	Company X requires 28 hours per month	£ 600.00	£ 28800.00	£ 36635.00	£ 30945.00	£ 96380.00
Scenario D	Company X requires 35 hours per month	£ 575.00	£ 34500.00	£ 30935.00	£ 25245.00	£ 90680.00
Scenario E	Company X requires 49 hours per month	£ 575.00	£ 48300.00	£ 17135.00	£ 11445.00	£ 76880.00

Notes:
Savings are considerably larger than stated when including benefits such as pension, holidays, sickness, health insurance etc.

SQL Server DBAs are generally responsible for the configuration, installation, and maintenance of a SQL Server and its hardware.
SQL Server Developers write T-SQL code, create supporting indexes, suggest and implement architecture, and tune performance.
The average SQL Server Professional will be one or the other, therefore to compare equally to the variety of work we can perform for your company, we should really consider two permanent employees or one, more expensive, highly skilled SQL Server Professional.

Average Salary Sources:
SQL Server DBA: CWJobs Salary Checker SQL DBA
SQL Server Developer: CWJobs Salary Checker SQL Developer

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